API Changelog & Versioning

API Changelog & Versioning is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by secondsky in claude-skills.

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Install API Changelog & Versioning

Copy API Changelog & Versioning into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/secondsky/claude-skills/tree/main/plugins/api-changelog-versioning/skills/api-changelog-versioning ~/.claude/skills/api-changelog-versioning

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/secondsky/claude-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/api-changelog-versioning/skills/api-changelog-versioning/SKILL.md in secondsky/claude-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/api-changelog-versioning
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1144 skills

What API Changelog & Versioning does

API Changelog & Versioning creates changelogs that document breaking changes, deprecations, and migration steps for API consumers. Use it when releasing new API versions or planning upgrades.

API Changelog & Versioning is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. API Changelog & Versioning comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-commands, claude-code-hooks, claude-code-plugin and claude-code-plugins.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

API Changelog & Versioning

Document API changes with clear migration paths and deprecation timelines.

Changelog Structure

# API Changelog

## v3.0.0 (2025-01-15) - Breaking Changes

### Breaking Changes
- Response format now follows JSON:API specification
- Authentication switched from API tokens to JWT Bearer

### Migration Steps
1. Update base URL to `/api/v3`
2. Replace `Authorization: Token xxx` with `Authorization: Bearer xxx`
3. Update response parsing for new envelope format

## v2.5.0 (2024-12-01) - Features

### New Features
- Webhook support for order events
- Batch operations endpoint
- Field filtering via `?fields=` parameter

### Improvements
- 56% faster response times on /products
- Enhanced error messages with field-specific suggestions

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands API Changelog & Versioning provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/products

Frequently asked about API Changelog & Versioning

What else does secondsky publish alongside API Changelog & Versioning?
API Changelog & Versioning is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from secondsky/claude-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Authentication, API Contract Testing and API Design Principles. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way API Changelog & Versioning does, and is maintained by secondsky in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the secondsky/claude-skills page.
How does API Changelog & Versioning compare to other Writing skills?
API Changelog & Versioning ranks #951 by stars among the 1144 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of API Changelog & Versioning against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.